[ale] large file downloads & Comcast

[Bob Toxen]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:14:19PM -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 14:05 -0400, Bob Toxen wrote:
> > That's Comcast!  I have the same problem.  It is not your equipment.
> > It's why I'm switching.

> Check the temp of the cable modem. I have a friend with similar issue.
> Things work OK for short bursts but the box get HOT with long accesses.
> He had a 'fridge close by so we plopped it in and it ran DVD downloads
> all night with no more errors.
The cable modem temperature is fine.  It also happened with two
different cable modems.  It does not matter what site it is.  Further,
access to all other sites fails at the same time and the modem makes
"the network is bleeped sound".  It is more likely to happen during
"busy" times when many people are accessing the network.  It's not my
hardware.

Bob

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> > 
> > On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 06:33:28PM -0400, Tim Meanor wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I have a bunch of different PCs hiding behind a LinkSys wireless  
> > > router.  Comcast is my ISP.  I've been trying to download the Ubuntu  
> > > 6.06 PPC ISO.  I have an old Titanium Mac Powerbook on which I'd like  
> > > to try running Ubuntu.  Problem is, the download gets to 649 MB (out  
> > > of about 698MB) and it dies.  By "dies" I mean it hangs, no more data  
> > > comes down, etc.  This happens on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.  I've  
> > > tried downloading via Firefox, IE, Safari, and Curl, but always the  
> > > same result.  I suspect that Comcast is killing the download once it  
> > > hits 649MB, but I'm not totally sure this is the problem.  I've had  
> > > this problem downloading large files before (e.g. trying to download  
> > > XCode resulted in the same problem).  Has anyone had this problem  
> > > before?  Anyone have any insights?  Thanks for any ideas.
> > > 
> > > -Tim
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